-Release notes for GStreamer Base Plug-ins 0.10.27 "No Mistakes Allowed"
-
+Release notes for GStreamer Base Plugins 1.0.2
-The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
-in the 0.10.x stable series of the
-GStreamer Base Plug-ins.
+The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new bug-fix release
+in the 1.x stable series of the
+core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.
-The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
-It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
-It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.
+The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
+It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.10.x series.
+It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.10.x series and
+will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation.
This module contains a set of reference plugins, base classes for other
-plugins, and helper libraries.
+plugins, and helper libraries. It also includes essential elements such
+as audio and video format converters, and higher-level components like playbin,
+decodebin, encodebin, and discoverer.
This module is kept up-to-date together with the core developments. Element
writers should look at the elements in this module as a reference for
containers: ogg
codecs: vorbis, theora
text: textoverlay, subparse
- sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, gnomevfssrc, giosrc
+ sources: audiotestsrc, videotestsrc, giosrc
network: tcp
- typefind
+ typefind functions
audio processing: audioconvert, adder, audiorate, audioresample, volume
visualisation: libvisual
- video processing: ffmpegcolorspace
- aggregate elements: uridecodebin, decodebin2, playbin2, decodebin, playbin
+ video processing: videoconvert, videoscale
+ high-level components: playbin, uridecodebin, decodebin, encodebin, discoverer
+ libraries: app, audio, fft, pbutils, riff, rtp, rtsp, sdp, tag, video
-Other modules containing plug-ins are:
+Other modules containing plugins are:
gst-plugins-good
-contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
+contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
gst-plugins-ugly
-contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
+contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
distributors
gst-plugins-bad
-contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
- rigorous quality testing we expect
+contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
+ rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
+ and/or unit tests
+gst-libav
+contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
Features of this release
- * playbin2,decodebin2: lots of fixes for missing plugin installation
- * playbin2, playsink, subtitleoverlay: Set subtitle encoding properly
- * videorate: Improve upstream negotiation
- * oggdemux: use the chain begin_time instead of our counter
- * oggdemux: mark skeleton streams correctly
- * oggdemux: theora PAR of 0:N, N:0 or 0:0 is allowed and maps to 1:1
- * typefinding: detect stm module format
- * ffmpegcolorspace: add conversions from all ARGB formats to AYUV and back
- * theoradec: Fix chroma copying for 4:2:2
- * tcpclientsrc,tcpserversrc: Fix handling of closed sockets
- * examples,build: dist header file for the Qt graphics view example
- * playsink: Reset the sink's state to NULL before unreffing it unless it's the same instance again
- * rtspconnection: make sure not to dereference NULL username or password
- * appsrc: Update segment duration and post a duration message if the duration changes
- * vorbisdec: also support ivorbis tremor decoder
- * rtsp: fail gracefully on bad Content-Length headers
- * rtsp: ignore \n and \r as the first line
+ * Parallel installability with 0.10.x series
+ * alsa: fix probing of supported formats, and advertise non-native-endianness formats as fallback
+ * audiobasesink: properly handle GAP events (fixing some isses with e.g. certain DVD menus)
+ * audioconvert: try harder to not convert or to preserve input format precision
+ * audiodecoder: leak fixes and refcounting fixes
+ * audioresample: re-enable the SSE/SSE2 code paths for better performance
+ * riff: fix paletted RGB formats and msvideo mapping
+ * rtsp: make formatting and parsing of range floating-point values locale-independent
+ * playbin: streamsynchronizer fixes, esp. for handling corner-cases near EOS
+ * tcpserver{sink,src}: add 'current-port' property and signal actually used port
+ * videoconvert: fix handling of paletted RGB formats
+ * videodecoder: don't leak message strings when error is not fatal
+ * videodecoder: finetune missing timestamp estimating
+ * videotestsrc: add palette for paletted RGB formats
+ * vorbistag: fix writing of image tags into vorbis comments
Bugs fixed in this release
- * 610449 : codec autodetection does not always work
- * 608025 : [videorate] fails at upstream negotiation
- * 608309 : [appsrc] Should request new data before the queue is empty
- * 608417 : rtspsrc problem with \n and \r as first line
- * 609063 : [vorbisdec] also support integer vorbis decoder (tremor) library implementation
- * 609314 : typefind: Typefind does not handle .stm module format
- * 609423 : [appsrc] gst_app_src_set_size() should update duration and post a duration message
- * 610005 : [oggdemux] regression: bad seek granularity
- * 610268 : [rtsp] NULL pointer reference in gstrtspconnection
- * 610310 : [playbin2] Subtitle encoding property has no effect
- * 610329 : [theoradec] doesn't copy all chroma lines for 4:2:2
- * 610379 : [playbin2] doesn't play if text flag is unset and media has text subtitles
- * 610386 : [tcpserversrc] Doesn't send EOS when socket is closed
- * 610672 : overlay examples are now inconsistent and broken
- * 610832 : missing header file in the tarball
- * 611225 : [oggdemux] doesn't preroll big_buck_bunny_427x240.indexed.ogg in push mode
- * 611227 : [oggdemux] no duration or seeking in local big_buck_bunny_427x240.indexed.ogg in pull mode
- * 604131 : Totem can no longer open Matroska files that hold ASS subtitles
-
-API changed in this release
-
-- API additions:
-
-* appsrc::min-percent property
-* GST_RIFF_TAG_JUNQ
+ * 580093 : tcpserversink,src: add 'current-port' property and signal actually used port when port=0 was set
+ * 680904 : alsasink: no supported formats detected with using USB sound card on big-endian system
+ * 683098 : videodecoder: log failure message if acquire_buffer failed
+ * 684411 : rtsp: range in SDP formatted according to locale
+ * 685273 : Pre-rolling on GAP events doesn't work properly for audio sinks
+ * 685711 : audio, video: update docs for virtual functions that require chaining up
+ * 685938 : [decodebin] Issues with group switching algorithm
+ * 686081 : adder: all unit tests crash now after collectpads changes
+ * 686298 : Cannot decode some AVI files with Microsoft Video 1
-Download
+==== Download ====
-You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download directory:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
+You can find source releases of gst-plugins-base in the download
+directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/
-GStreamer Homepage
+The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
+http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/
-More details can be found on the project's website:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
+==== Homepage ====
-Support and Bugs
+The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
+
+==== Support and Bugs ====
We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
-Developers
+Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
+
+For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
+gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
-GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned from there.
-Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
-subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
-will create more lists as necessary.
+There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
+
+==== Developers ====
+
+GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
+from there (see link above).
+
+Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
+subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
-Applications
-
Contributors to this release
- * Benjamin Otte
- * David Schleef
- * Götz Waschk
- * Josep Torra Valles
- * Kaj-Michael Lang
+ * Alexandre Relange
+ * Andoni Morales Alastruey
+ * Carlos Rafael Giani
+ * David Corvoysier
+ * Josep Torra
* Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Patrick Radizi
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Stefan Kost
* Thiago Santos
* Tim-Philipp Müller
* Wim Taymans
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